Dwayne Phillips ' Day Book
Items
I happen to view each day. Science, Techonology, Management, Culture,
and of course Writing
This is my day book for this week. I have modeled this after science
fiction and computer writer Jerry Pournelle's view, or as he calls it,
his Day Book.
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This
week: May 2-8, 2016
Summary of this week:
- Windows 7 is still the most-used OS
- Google's Chrome is most-used browser
- Apple stock falls eight days in a row
- 10 year old Finnish boy wins bug bountry from Facebook
Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
Monday May 2, 2016
Apps to help people care for elderly parents, especially those with forms of senility.
Australian businessman Chris Wright says he is Satoshi Nakamoto—creator of Bitcoin.
Want to skip cable TV? Here are a bunch of alternatives.
The Feinstein-Burr encryption bill covers everything in the world ever. Hence, it must be stopped.
Malia Obama to attend Harvard. The plutocrats flourish while everyone else tries to maintain a semblance of something resembling dignity.
Windows 7 is still the most-used operating system on PCs. Microsoft drops below 90% market share.
Another alternative on the electric bicycle: a $900 front wheel that has a motor in it. Still too expensive to be practical.
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Tuesday May 3, 2016
A guy is selling 600 Smith-Corona typewriters on CraigsList.
ooops, researchers open the locked front door of Samsung's Smart Home automation system.
Nvidia and Samsung settle their patent lawsuits.
Google's Chrome is now the most-used browser in the world.
HP has a new line of portable computers including a hybrid model with a big 15" display.
Apple's stock is sliding down; most days in a row since 1998. Time to buy.
Leicester City wins the Premier League for the first time in 132 years. And Chicago Cubs fans think they suffer.
Three years ago, Microsoft wanted to fund K-12 CS education. Now it wants us taxpayers to do so.
Tim Cook says that can't-live-without features are coming to the iPhone.
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Wednesday May 4, 2016
HP shows powerful, stylish, and expensive Chromebooks. Kind of defeats the purpose.
HP's new all-in-one desktop PC has practically no border on the display.
Time magazine, remember them?, names the iPhone most influential gadget of all time. I would have voted for the pencil.
ooops, there is a security hole in ImageMagick used on many sites that lets in malware.
GoPro introduces its mobile, video-editing apps.
A ten-year-old from Finland wins a $10K bounty from Facebook by finding a bug in Instagram.
Saved
by government. Our President will hold meetings this year to discover
how artificial intelligence will do something or other.
Google will soon put self-driving minivans on the road.
QCaaS—quantum computing as a service from the folks at IBM. Let me be the first with the acronym.
Twitter's stock hits a new low.
An ugly look inside Facebook offices with former Trending News employees. Facebook has a bad reputation in many ways. Rich kids got really rich by exploiting a lot of people.
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Thursday May 5, 2016
I'm on a road trip, so the Internet viewing is spotty at best.
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Friday May 6, 2016
Little to no Internet viewing today.
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Saturday May 7, 2016
A little more time on the Internet today.
SpaceX has second straight successful landing of booster on a barge.
Some sanity returns in the UK as Boaty McBoatface is given a real, adult name, RRS Sir David Attenborough.
Nvidia's new platforms smash the performance of the most recent ones: GTX 1070 and 1080.
It is Saturday, so: Every Single Monster on the Original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Ranked.
A list of companies that specialize in work-from-home jobs.
IBM and Bausch+Lomb team on an app to help cataracts surgeons and patients.
Best video of the week: GoPro rides a rocket to 400,000 feet.
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Sunday May 8, 2016
SpaceX works because failure IS an option.
The state of the computer monitor: 32" of beauty now for only $399 from HP.
This is America? A darker-skinned man is taken off a plane because he was scribbling math symbols on paper.
The headline says it all: The third leading cause of death: medical errors.
This looks like a great, cheap gadget, put movies etc. on this portable WiFi hub.
I'm a bit surprised, but Nividia's newest GPUs are getting a lot of attention on the Internet. This is a big deal.
DropBox employees face harsh reality of reduced benefits and calls for more personal saving.
Some people can write by hand in a way that looks better than anything a computer can do.
Tips for writing short stories, and 100 short story ideas. Good stuff.
If you, like me, are not a great writer, here is a trick: ask, if I were a great writing, what would I be doing. Then do that.
There is great value in learning to write. Notice, this is learning to write, not learning what some high school English teacher told you was writing.
Ideas on turning an ebook into a printed workbook.
Thoughts on building a writing platform, a.k.a., a website.
Some tips to help you write that book.
The role of the daily journal in improving your writing. Hey, if you journal about it, it is a big emotion for you. That is the golden story to write.
Using project pricing instead of hourly wage for writing.
Can you write nine books in a year. Yes, we can.
Some thoughts on waiting patiently while working furiously for writing success.
How one person lives travelling the world, writing, and teaching English. It can work.
What does writing feel like to you?
Some writing jobs for people who don't want to write novels.
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